the writerly life – Page 12 – darlene anita scott

Looking at the Pictures

31 October 200913 July 2011 darlene anita scottLeave a comment

I stopped writing a few years ago. Dealing with the stuff I wrote about was hard enough to manage in my daily life; rehashing it in words was putting salt in the open wound. So I stopped. No journals, no poems, not a line of metaphors, nouns turned to verbs, nothing. I hoped that not [...]

Monthly Meter

4 October 200913 July 2011 darlene anita scottLeave a comment

Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : September Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 1 Secret Shame: Hold Yuh - Gyptian; reading celebrity gossip on the internet Books: Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple - Deborah Layton

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1 September 200913 July 2011 darlene anita scottLeave a comment

Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : August Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 6 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 2 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: Stuff I think. Books: Bread Givers - Anzia Yezierska Brother, I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat One in a Million - Kimberla Lawson Roby

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4 August 200913 July 2011 darlene anita scottLeave a comment

Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : July Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: "Ego" (the remix) by Beyonce f/Kanye West Books: still reading Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

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1 July 200913 July 2011 darlene anita scottLeave a comment

Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : June Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 5 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: this dang sugar addiction Books: I've been pretty illiterate this month...

Desiderata

16 June 200913 July 2011 darlene anita scottLeave a comment

You've read this before? Had it read to you? For me, it was a graduation gift from my AP Spanish teacher. That was many moons and even more conjugated verbs ago. It's been credited to Max Ehrman though that has been disputed, but I'm gonna put his name on it anyway. It wasn't useful as [...]

Big Dreams

10 June 200913 July 2011 darlene anita scott2 Comments

My life tells a completely different story, but the truth is I dream big. I dream bigger than my pockets can handle; in ways that scare my family; as often as possible; and with the personal assurance that they will come true in some time and place. I am also impatient and easily manipulated by [...]

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1 June 200913 July 2011 darlene anita scottLeave a comment

Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : May Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 2 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: my buddha belly Books: The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Diode Poem Gets Reviewed

18 May 200913 July 2011 darlene anita scottLeave a comment

Well you know poetry rarely gets reviewed really, more like analyzed. Today I made this discovery: a review/analsyis of the poem I recently had published on this blog. Hmmm. Cool methinks. What say you?